Bill Whittington

I don't know why.

I just did.

It'd be 20 years of writing for a living and 25 years of doing this for a living.

And I can promise you that these last 25 years have been a hell of a lot better than the first 20.

And it's meant the world to me.

And it continues to do so.

It continues to do so even as I face the last stages of it.

So, you know, I do it.

Column experience is better than I can probably at this point.

No, you're doing fine.

I think there's a – reach a breaking point, and I reached it a while ago just in general.

And then when this other breaking point hit me, as hard as it hit me, I had a lot of time to reflect, a lot of time to think about it, a lot of time – because nothing was ever announced.

Nothing was ever said publicly or anything about it.

So I could have changed my mind at any point.

And I don't think at this point I can rely on it.

I can't do it.

I can't possibly face this again because missing what I missed this year, including the Cubs –

Although I was there for a week, wasn't I?

The World Series opener.

I just, it was tough on me in every way possible, not only physically but mentally.